The COVID Diaries – 166 17th September
The UK’s supposedly world beating coronavirus test and trace system was condemned as “barely functional” today as it failed to deal with demand running at four times its capacity and 90% of tests failed to hit the 24-hour turnaround target.
It appears that tracers are taking up to two weeks to contact friends, relatives and workmates of people diagnosed with Covid-19 – the entire length of the self-isolation period.
However, Dido Harding, head of the NHS test-and-trace programme told MPs “I strongly refute that the system is failing.”